Research Listing - College

Konstan's work lies broadly in the field of human-computer interaction. Most of the work relates to recommender systems -- personalization software -- and how personalization algorithms can be improved to provide better user experience. He also works more broadly on social computing -- challenges in how technology supports (or fails to support) collaboration and on health applications of technology (particularly web and mobile behavioral interventions for…

Mapping agriculture features using high-resolution satellite imagery, forecasting crop yields, integrating crop models with remote sensing for precision nitrogen management, impacts of climate change on agroecosystem, digital and precision agriculture.

Current research focuses are:

• Remote sensing and deep learning for agroecosystem management
• Process-based modeling and physics-guided machine learning in agroecosystem systems
• Field-Level quantification of SOC…

• Computers in engineering practice
• Root cause failure analysis
• Fatigue & Fracture in machine design
• Experiential and Project-based learning

I am an observational/experimental infrared astronomer specializing in instrument development, telescope construction, telescope control and data acquisition systems. My observational programs include studies of comets, novae, supernovae, variable stars, and objects of opportunity.

Computational harmonic analysis, analysis of large data sets and statistical learning, bio-informatics.

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Richard James' main area of research is phase transformations in materials - especially shape memory and multiferrroic materials - at large and small scales. This involves the development of mathematical methods for the analysis of materials at atomic and continuum scales, especially the development of multiscale methods for understanding the relation between the behavior of materials on different scales. It also involves advanced methods of bulk synthesis and characterization of new…

My research interests lie at the interface of particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics. The general scope of my research is on finding new theoretical models that explain some mysteries of the Universe, such as the identity of dark matter and the observed cosmological excess of ordinary matter over antimatter. I am particularly interested in how dark matter and matter-antimatter asymmetry arise in the early Universe. A key aspect is also bridging experimental searches and such new…

My research centers on the role of gravity in cosmology: I use gravitational lensing and classical dynamics to study the mass distribution in the Universe, from sub-galactic to galaxy-cluster scales, with the goal of elucidating the nature of dark matter and constraining cosmological parameters. Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light from distant background sources by the intervening mass distribution, like galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Lensing is by far the best tool for the…

Chemical Biology: metalloenzymes, small-molecule discovery, protein engineering

Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry: spectroscopy, catalysis

Metalloenzymes are at the heart of numerous biological processes ranging from respiration and photosynthesis to natural product biosynthesis. Research in the Bhagi-Damodaran lab focuses on investigating structure, function and reaction…

A wide variety of geodynamic processes depend intimately on the manner in which rocks behave at extreme conditions. My research focuses on how rocks flow (that is, their rheological behavior) at high temperatures and pressures. My group primarily uses laboratory-based experiments to investigate the mechanisms of rock deformation at the atomic scale and the manner in which those mechanisms control the dynamics of the solid Earth at the scale of tectonic plates. 

The physical processes…